blunt ambersnail

Oxyloma retusum

Classification

Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Succineidae

Oxyloma retusum, common name the blunt ambersnail, is a species of small land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk belonging to the family Succineidae. Distribution This species occurs in North America. Biology This snail eats dead and green plants in the summer, and only dead plants during the winter.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 16Canada · 3

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Thomas Irvine, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Thomas Irvine · CC-BY DescriptionOxyloma retusum, Wikipedia contributors

blunt ambersnail

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